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# Santa Monica Ranked Ninth 'Meanest' City Toward Homeless, Officials Dispute Report
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/012706-story-20060127-2/
- Published: 2006-01-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:05:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

Local officials are critical of a new report, released by the National Coalition for the Homeless, that ranks Santa Monica as the ninth “meanest” U.S. city toward homeless people due to its anti-homeless laws. Pointing to the myriad homeless services offered in Santa Monica, some officials are questioning the methodology behind the report.

So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “How well do you think Santa Monica treats its homeless population relative to other cities?”

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your responses in the weekend edition. Please try to limit your comments to a minute or less. It might help to think first about the wording of your response.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 27, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012706.pdf?ref=smdp.com)